New Children Stories
New Children Stories is a creative writing project taking inspiration from Middle Eastern stories like 1001 Nights heroine Sherezaade or South Asian animal fables like Panchtantra.
Ben-Azeera Lela will be working with Key stage 2 schools and libraries to enhance writing skills in young people.
She will also be working with South Asian grandmothers to find the lost stories from their childhood memories to influence the fairy tale so that it instils positive gender conditioning, female leadership, body image and is aimed at parents of young children from the age of 2 years old.
Watch out for the fairytale launch in March 2021 at the UK Asian Film Festival.